Full Description
Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students is a workbook that supplements the instruction offered in Help! My College Students Can't Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). The workbook focuses specifically on ready-made activities to help students learn vital reading strategies that are applicable to all academic texts.
Staying engaged with academic content materialDeveloping purposes for readingMaking reading predictionsEvaluating textual informationDrawing inferencesDeveloping higher-level questionsMaking connections to prior knowledgeCreating visuals to enhance comprehensionNavigating difficult or unfamiliar vocabulary
Special features include "Point to Ponder" critical thinking prompts, practice texts from a range of academic disciplines, and "Professional Spotlight" interviews focusing on field-specific reading demands and the importance of strong reading skills in real-world professions
Contents
Introduction
1 Active Reading
Reading Strategies
2 Determining a Purpose
Making Predictions
Determining a Purpose
Evaluating Possible Purposes
Ways to Stay Engaged While Reading
3 Determining What's Important
Striking Out Unneeded Information
4 Developing Higher-Level Question
Focus Quadrants
Asking Questions as We Read
5 Making Connections
Drawing Inferences
Connecting to Prior Knowledge
6 Navigating Unknown Words
Dealing with Difficult Vocabulary
Pie Chart Vocabulary
Ways to Study Lists of Terms
7 Creating Visuals to Enhance Comprehension and Recall
Practice Creating Visuals
8 Keeping It Real
Professional Spotlight Interviews
Conduct Your Own Professional Reading Interview
